Strategic foresight in logistics - possibilities of application

The aim of the article is to present the application possibilities of strategic foresight research for the logistics field. The first part of the paper is devoted to the presentation of the bibliometric analysis which aim was to locate logistics within the foresight research. The bibliometric analysis was supported by VOS software, which is a mapping technique that stands for visualization of similarities. The second part of the paper is devoted to the presentation of two possible applications of strategic foresight for logistics, namely EU FP7 project RACE2050 and the Logistics Trend Radar. The empirical contribution of the paper is the presentation of logistics localization in the strategic foresight field. In the paper the following research methods have been used: bibliometric analysis, literature review, critical analysis of the existing published works and a case study.